Friday, February 15, 2013

Be An Ocean

(43)

“How are we going to say, no to beauty, Rafael?”

“Its easy to be said than practiced. But just now, I’m making you
aware of the troubles the five senses would create when we are under its
control. When you see a delicious meal in television, naturally your mind
brings the smell of it or the presenter explains it and when our ears hear it,
our mind brings out the smell from memory, we feel, the food is prepared in the
house and the taste buds starts to work of watering the whole mouth and
naturally, the stomach is ready to have the food.” All nodded.

“But alas! No food, the result, more hunger.” All nodded

“Right Mark, More hunger, which means, you would never be
satisfied, even if you try your level best by trying to eat with your eyes. That is what happens, if you are looking for beauty to
fulfill your wish. The only way you can find beauty is, when you love your Self,
which means, your soul, because you are a spiritual being, a drop of God soul, the child of
God, that is the only truth and which is real in this atomic world. Drum it into you. ” All nodded.

“I'll give an example, when we take a drop of water from an ocean and store it in a
small container, what will it be, an ocean or a drop of water?”

“Naturally a drop of water, how can it become an ocean, Rafael?”

“Now if it is planning to make itself an ocean, what should it do?”

“Rafael, are you joking? It could never become an ocean and just
to think about it is simply idiotic.” All nodded.

“You’re right Mathew, and just imagine, that this drop has decided
to become an ocean and it has stepped out of the container and settled on the
soil or the rock, what will happen?”

“It makes a small watery mark and afterwards, that too is gone.”
All nodded.

“Very true, Monica, that is what the decisions of what we make
happens because as a human being, our decision is made with the help of our
senses and I just want to make sure, how much shallow our decisions when we
decide because we saw or heard or said or smelled or felt the atmosphere
around. The result of deciding with your five senses is instant death. You’re
not here for that, instant death. You have to live eternally. How do we do
that? Or let me put it this way, if the drop has to become an ocean, what
should it do?”

“Pour itself into the ocean?” All nodded

“Great answer Rebecca. Yes, when a drop of water returns to the
ocean and yes, the drop becomes an ocean. It would have an identity. So that is
the only to convert a drop of water into an ocean. That is our goal.”

“Wow!!! Rafael, that was cool, I thought a drop would never become an
ocean. So you have already spoken about how eyes can obstruct our path to reach
this ocean and how would our next sense block us?” All smiled, Rafael nodded

“Now we will let the function of the eyes rest for a while, and take up on our ears.”

“The most best music to our ears is praise, isn’t it Rafael?”

“Hmmm.. Mark, you’re really thinking. Good, keep it up. Yes its
praise, even the best music cannot keep up with the contentment and happiness
it provides us.” All nodded.

“But that too for how long?”

“Until we get the next praise? Or is it when we are criticized?”

“It can be any or both. But the end result is, the happiness is
only for a small time and we start to crave for more and that in itself creates
a Marathon of our lives and where will we end?”

“Unhappiness.”

“Exactly, when we receive beauty through our ears and when our
mind finds that we are happy, naturally the mind puts lots of ideas in front of
us to make us happy and we start running to fulfill those ideas. It’s like a
treasure hunt inside a thousand room palace, each door opened has no treasure
and again with the hope that the next door holds what we are looking for and
ending with emptiness and the resultant feeling is hollowness and a sense of
burnt out, listlessness, just a dead person inside. That is what happens, when
we go with the senses. It could never fulfill what we are looking for because
it has been created by your mind, the real devil.” All nodded

“No wonder, the sages ran away from the real world and lived in forests and
high mountains. They really are very courageous." All nodded"Yeah, to face the wild animals, bad weather and without even basic necessities, like a proper shelter, food and clothing. But we all cannot go to
forests and mountains, how are we going to manage in this world, the world of
atoms, we live, with people, beauty, praise, hunger, cravings, etc.. Rafael?” All nodded

“Good, you asked it Mathew, there
are lots of things before we decide that its time to set our foot to the path
that leads to the eternal happiness or peace or love, in short, the travel of the drop of water to reach the ocean . Its no use enlightening at every problem, the solution, its simply like a
drop of water in the desert sand. You'll never know the value of it because, its just a small incident in the big screen of life." All nodded." You’ll have to turn yourself with total
awareness, that you'll have loads of experiences to go through at every corner of your existence and tackle it successfully before you reach the big ocean, only then you can make your mark as an ocean. We’ll continue tomorrow.” All nodded

About Me

Once upon a time there was a girl who feared to stand and talk in front of a public audience. But she became aware of her fear and was not ready to flee. She became a teacher and she taught the whole school.

She also had another problem, she had hordes of thoughts & ideas but couldn't contain it. She didn't want to keep it within her as it was hindering her thoughts. So she started jotting out all her thoughts, ideas & wishes, thus she became a writer and flushed her mind clean.

She wanted to help people, motivate them and make them successful. So she became a social worker. But there was one very very big problem, she had no trade to sustain her. So she started her own travel desk.

And you might be thinking who is this stupid lady - Its me, Meena.

Whatever I am or whoever I have become, I am happy. It was not an easy path. But I had a choice, whether I should be happy with what I have and made myself into or I should be sad for what I do not have or did not become.